How An American Beat The Japanese At Their Own Game

Evo 2016 holds a special place in many people's hearts as crowd favorite Long Island Joe takes on the Japanese in Street Fighter 5. He plays against some of the best in the world and is able to make a statement as one of the strongest Nash players in SF5.
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[@MartyMacFry]

I was watching the Japanese Twitch stream live when this happened and he won the Japanese fans over and they were cheering for him to win.

[@darkherostardustchannel3699]

They called him Shujinko too in the chat which means "Main character"

[@kobold7964]

@@darkherostardustchannel3699isn’t that a Mortal Kombat character? Lol

[@GawrGurasBathTubPizza]

yes respect, and the response to that is making a video saying how an american (a colonised land) is better then the people who created the franchise its like western mainstream media, always biased/racist to china/russia/iran, watch on THEIR news networks its just normal news, none of the biased narrative and hate in the west: "and how china is failing and arresting this person or detaining that person", watch chinese news, is just normal everyday news

[@JustSendMeLocation]

@@kobold7964the word Shujinko means protagonist in Japanese.

[@gaddeath]

@@kobold7964yes, from MK: Deception, and he’s the literal protagonist in that game.

[@caelan5301]

Imagine getting knocked down to losers and literally your first match is against Kazunoko and his crackhead cammy

[@Crunch_Buttsteak]

Cammy got addicted to crack at one point? Is this canon??

[@pollux.6773]

great vid

[@PinkyJustice]

It's not aita, it's eita.

[@joshsantor8727]

I honestly thought this was RealLaw at first😅 LOLOLOL

[@rainbowmullet]

no matter who it is my dad could beat them in street fighter cause he's just better

[@moomoomouse7274]

American players did not really win against the Japanese, the EVO is held in America. We are talking about 8720 American players vs 172 Japanese players registered to paticipate in the tournament last year, not to mention the some japanese players are experiencing jet-lag and have very little time to prepare. Plus a lot of American players won with the "turtle style + light punch+grab" and stupid 50/50 guessing game, not with skill. Overall SF5 is a terrible fighting game and by far the worst in street fighter series.

[@sorubro2193]

Lets forget that sfv happened pls

[@senbonzakurakageyoshi92]

The most wholesome fgc moments is LI joe evo run and Lil Majin evo run.

[@clubnightparade]

Now the phidx run is up there, Arslan then chikurin and so much emotion after each win

[@senbonzakurakageyoshi92]

@@clubnightparade the angry bird one was pretty wholesome too

[@realrockyboy00]

mike ross's top 4 run for me

[@ryantruong9388]

@@senbonzakurakageyoshi92goichi’s was also great, and I love the justin wong popoff after he won in mvc3.

[@warriorhi6051]

You forgot Tokaido EVO 2017 run.

[@balrawg5990]

When Nash was viable... the good old days.

[@YaBoiPaladin]

Eita is my favorite part of all this. Dudes almost cheering him on the entire time whenever Joes getting hyped.

[@abdulrafay2730]

Defeating kazunoko was the actual victory.... Man is the beast....litterally

[@The_Hand]

I love how respectful eita was, raises joes hand after he wins

[@reunionxsos7545]

Forreaaals. Eita didn't even have to do that. Just another great layer added to the moment.

[@channel6ixty]

I used to work at Yahoo Esports and watched this live ringside. It was the perfect tourney to kickoff the SFV era

[@Solkan55]

Your commentary is amazing -- I've never played or watched any fighting game videos and I was hooked from the first 60 seconds from your commentary alone.

[@sumo-ninja]

I felt the exact same way I couldn't agree more this guy's good at what he does

[@FedorMachida]

LI Joe's run was so amazing! I love the guy. I think he is now a commentator/host, etc. I saw him at EVO.

[@sundevil34]

I remember meeting/hanging out with him at Evo 09 and Evo 10. Really cool dude.

[@TheSpeedfoever]

He is the host of EVO now

[@AdrianBrown]

That scene of Joe popping off after the Eita win...is LEGENDARY

[@clementcastro9725]

L.I. Joe Satriani

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

Noice.

[@reunionxsos7545]

😂

[@shishioh]

Joe is also the person that made Sonicfox realize he should probably wait another 5 or 6 years to play SF again.

[@mrpinguimninja]

Hey, can I have context on this? Would love to know the story lmao

[@MoonlightMaskG]

@@mrpinguimninja yeah definitely where’s the update?

[@SharperG7]

Your channel is one of the best in the FGC. Keep up the good work dude! These videos are awesome

[@y0kiddyz1]

Hard agree

[@y0kiddyz1]

Thanks for not letting people forget this moment. First year for SFV EVO. Great work!

[@kdot9527]

YO THAT HAT GOES HARD IMA NEED THAT

[@afbriant]

I was at this evo... man it was so fun.

[@MrArchibaldwitwiki]

Really good job with these videos. The FGC has been such a place of joy for me for so long. Thanks for doing her justice good sir!

[@Nicomartz52]

This video make me want to play SFV a little bit.

[@doppelnaut]

i would let mika get in close i'm sorry i can't help myself

[@thepauljones]

Dude! More of this. I watched this live but your commentary was excellent. You really enriched the experience of watching a classic match back. Perfect timing too, an explanation of a play which is incoming then a beat, and then that play. Brilliant. Instant subscribe and hope to see more ❤

[@vapersmith7859]

Somehow this is a LOT more impressive looking back at it due to the fact that SFV's Psychological warfare was even more intense in some ways in that era than its successor...LI Joe the true American hero of Street Fighter!

[@mickeybat5816]

Why was Nash nerfed? From what I'm hearing about him, Nash wasn't THAT good on release, but he was cool and people just labbed him a lot.

[@cam0x195]

He benefited a lot from the input delay making his dash almost impossible to react to. Also if you were tricky enough with his trigger you could get some big damage or a get out of jail free card. He was good but he was more of a player matchup character.

[@TheGohthecrow]

He was considered "broken" once infiltration main him.

[@in_vas_por8810]

Nash was ridiculous in the early days of SFV. It got figured out pretty quickly.

[@exiaR2x78]

It was the input delay ircc that made him really strong in vanilla SFV. They nerfed his dash ircc as well as the input delay being reduced didnt help him. S2 was a lot more characters needed explosive Vtriggers which Nash didnt have. By the end of the game like CE update Nash was solid again

[@ays0nable]

You mean how an American got lucky 😂

[@jaynyc154]

LI JOE's run is so sick; tournament organizer AND pro player.

[@richietherrien7540]

I love that when LI joe was celebrating taking a game tying the set eita celebrated with him

[@eliwolf8987]

Its crazy that he legit is playing audio of them saying Eita's name multiple times and still chooses to mispronounce it lol

[@PressureCooker69]

This is the guy that famously wouldn't pick a top tier

[@cooltron]

Nash was viable back then and def was part of top.

[@u3k1m6]

Yeah Nash was actually insane before the nerfs. Infiltration made people realize how good he actually was @@cooltron

[@JohnDoe-df6yr]

nash was literally the best character shut up lol

[@PressureCooker69]

he's still the guy that famously wouldn't pick a top tier

[@cooltron]

@@PressureCooker69 Oh so you mean someone who doesn’t win anything, gotcha. We got plenty of those already.

[@Mad77max77]

And that's why Dapvip is still my favorite UMvC3 player ! He may not be the best, but his play style is really awesome !

[@10minutesandunder]

title is misleading

[@itloaf]

you never miss, man

[@TheDancerMacabre]

This is my first time seeing Nash gameplay, and all i could think is IS THAT A GENOCIDE CUTTER???

[@Dembomes]

Surely He wouldn’t throw a 3rd Time

[@TheCJRhodes]

Another little neat L.I. Joe fact: He's handsome

[@interceptingfist5682]

Opinions can't be facts 😂

[@joncliffmckinley5868]

sorry, its a fact

[@CubeCF]

babe wake up new papalobster just dropped

[@IsaacPurpleguy]

EVO 2016 had so many great top 8s

[@okishop3477]

Eita is pronounced "ate-tah," but yeah his ken was wild and very entertaining to watch in vanilla sfv.

[@Af0]

Nah bro he's UHMERICAN he has to pronounce it the UHMERICAN way

[@plabcentral630]

Not everyone knows how to pronounce foreign names.

[@Af0]

@@plabcentral630 how about listening to the EVo footage lol they pronounce it correctly

[@plabcentral630]

@@Af0 some people just can’t pronounce things correctly and people like the nitpickers like y’all will just have to get over it because bitching is not helping anything.

[@AirLancer]

@@plabcentral630 If they're supposed to be making a documentary about the FGC, then knowing how to pronounce a Japanese name should be mandatory seeing as how a majority of the best SF players are Japanese. Or we gonna start saying "Daygo Yumeeharrah" and just say it's ok because it's a "foreign name."

[@jblue88hoodgamer54]

That Subscribe button with the Nash Sonic Boom was cool.

[@Juan_rivera]

He's from Long Island too 💪🏽awesome cuz I'm from there too

[@AzarelVincy]

Lol America has so many top 5 players that this video that this video is just weird.

[@JohnDoe-df6yr]

So u make a Li Joe one but not one for Idom? Which was way more impressive.

[@cardsuponly]

The title makes it look like you are proud he beat them just because the game is created by japanese. Why cant you just be proud of him winning the tournament? This game was created so we can all be one community, but it just seems like its everyone against japanese players.

[@vietnamsemonky4082]

So you’ve missed the point of national rivalries entirely lol. No one dislikes the Japanese and this video praises every Japanese player. The topic is how an American player who no one thought could go far in the tournament actually do that and beat several high level Japanese players who have been the only ones dominating Street Fighter at that level. If someone keeps winning something, eventually they get people who want to see them lose, it’s just how competition works.

[@cynicaljohn3198]

And now that SF6 is out, everyone agrees that SFV was absolute garbage because the franchise literally decided to cater to casuals and make the game easier to play.

[@doctordice2doctordice210]

No everyone agrees that 5 was bad because: 1-it had one of the most pathetic lunches any fighting game has ever seen 2-one of the worst balancing the franchise ever seen for 3 years straight 3- an online so bad they had to have a fan fix it for them yet they still fuc*ed it up somehow 4-an oversimplified neutral 5- a cheap comback mechanic that pretty much rewarded the losing player for losing I can go oooooon and oooooon about what an absolute sh*t-show half of sf5's live span was

[@alexanderthomas4425]

Wtf does Joe friend chanting in the background have on

[@MrGoodboyjoy]

He lost to Nash .... They beat Joe at his own game...

[@deepaknarayan3713]

Nash is Charlie from old Street fighter?

[@turnuplife]

What?! 😄😄 Idom is the strongest American player. This is cap

[@hennynicca]

This is old

[@chasepalumbo2929]

No kof breakdowns? That would be awesome man and it’s an untapped international viewer base

[@TheOne-dn9mr]

I NEED MY BOI NASH IN SF6

[@LuigiFan1305]

Johnny sins of video game community

[@JeriDro]

0:55 came in like a slave owner

[@tenkensou]

Try to explain this In LoL or Tekken or other games besides how daigo Humehara for many years crush all american players in his way. have a nice day

[@goku-pops7918]

Gotta say this game looks so stiff

[@twiggyflacko]

I forget if it was evo but his run in SF4 the one tournament was so hype. When he brought his dad out with him, shit had my choked up.

[@kunduntroll]

chat gpt script

[@MarkGabrielOsabel]

Welp having someone analyze your fighting style is a strat too. Better to be an all-rounder in this type of gamws

[@xavierkizzee2919]

Heartwarming 🥹

[@Juan_rivera]

Was that Danny Trejo?

[@status7505]

2:34 omg this editing

[@Feedbackking13]

Wolf Slayer Ninja in this year's combo breaker is worth analysis

[@whataderk]

SF6 looks so much better than sf5.

[@uberhaxorzskelletor]

And 5 looks better than sf4 so what? The games are 8 years apart of course the one on the current console is gonna look better

[@nme_]

Bro you should break down Justin wong vs too much damage. The end was so hype.

[@mariust100]

Damn this got me emotional

[@MinotaurMickey]

This was so inflated thoo lol

[@armorbearer9702]

I will have to agree with the other comments that your commentary is exceptional.

[@Adonis_73]

“RIGGED BRACKETS”

[@mrpinguimninja]

LI Joe is such a nice and wholesome dude you can't ever cheer against him.

[@psymonanteros191]

Eita isn't German. It's Ei like George Takei, not like Albert Einstein

[@BaxterBeat5]

this title is lame man

[@Tribalkeef39]

You forgot to include the part where his bracket was full of nobodies, scrubs and easy victories just so that an American can get into top 8, which is the only way that’s possible. This dude is a fluke and the fact that he never got top 8 at any other tournament and resorts to commentary proves it. America will always stay free.

[@vietnamsemonky4082]

Okay man, stay seething on a feel good story KZbin video lol.

[@bmanziller]

Get gud scrub, my dad is a pro street fighter player

[@forgottenalex]

Love how Joe's dad looks like Hercule

[@mikeyfrance9469]

I found a video of lil joe at a kncoked loose concert lol

[@wallacesouza2381]

Even Danny Trejo was rooting for Joe. 14:12

[@parkmanpoop901]

you sound like the animator spazkid lmao

[@RacconCity]

😒

[@AntLeonardi01]

I thought he got second place and lost in grand finals to infiltration? Having some serious Mandela effect right now

[@entropiece]

nah. "download complete" was a reference to Infiltration's grand finals against Fuudo after resetting and taking it

[@dmf13]

Do Bonchan vs Alex Valle at Evo 2015

[@snakebebop]

This is the longest 15 minutes of fame I've ever seen.

[@johnrivers4557]

That's bc it was 17 minutes and 23 seconds.

[@Soldano999]

Joe litterally looks like joe satriani

[@justingoers]

Wake up babe, fresh papa lob drop.

[@GusMortis]

Watching his run live through winner top 24 was amazing as well.

[@RobertSmithSWSMITH]

Waiting for infiltration next

[@joeysalami]

First time seeing your videos. So so good man. This needs more views!

[@BunnyJolf]

Can i mention how cool nash looks

[@zepolcin2412]

A forefather

[@BigDaddyKnez]

Love me some Nash!

[@roninwarriorx4126]

Good he’s the coolest player! He’s not a 25 year old 10 year old like most fg players.

[@savaget2058]

He got out-Nash'd 😅

[@iurioso]

dope video

[@HighTierMike]

i hardly see him now 😢

[@FGCScrub]

Americans are better players that the Japanese in both SF and MK. Period.

[@RayzeCruxis]

An American got 3rd place in the recent EVO and MK is not a thing in JP so where were you going with this?

[@FGCScrub]

@@RayzeCruxis Yup and a Japanese didn't even place in the top3. that's where I was going. Simple yet you failed to understand.

[@JohnDoe-df6yr]

Still u mention MK for no reason like a dumbass@@FGCScrub

[@jaioxung]

That was an epic run!

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Can you make breakdowns for SNK and Arc Sys?

[@PapaLobster]

I have something in the works for GG 😉

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

@@PapaLobster Glad to hear it.